TV Pets Trivia
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49 free TV Pets trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This TV pets trivia quiz is about the animals who stole the show. It covers the classics, from Lassie, Rin Tin Tin, Mister Ed and Flipper to Arnold Ziffel the pig and Gentle Ben the bear, and the sitcom scene-stealers: Eddie from Frasier, Comet from Full House, Marcel the monkey, Buck the Bundys' dog, Salem the cat, Cheddar the corgi, Stella the French bulldog and Murray from Mad About You. Cartoon pets get their turn too, with Santa's Little Helper, Snowball II, Brian Griffin, Astro, Dino, Ladybird and Porkchop, along with British favourites K9, Wellard from EastEnders and the Blue Peter dogs. The questions ask about breeds, real animal actors, voice actors, origin episodes and the odd behind-the-scenes fact. About a third are easy for anyone who watches television, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who know which piglet won three Patsy Awards. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the production sources it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01Eddie, Martin Crane's dog on Frasier, was what breed?
Jack Russell terrier
Eddie was a Jack Russell terrier whose habit of staring down Kelsey Grammer became a running sight gag; the dog reportedly received more fan mail than the human cast.
Q 02What was the name of the dog who played Eddie on Frasier for the first several seasons?
Moose
Moose played Eddie from the 1993 premiere; his son Enzo, bred as a stand-in, took over the role later in the run and did the stunt work.
Q 03Buddy, the basketball-playing golden retriever of Air Bud, shot hoops in a 1995 episode of which sitcom?
Full House
Full House: Buddy played the Tanners' dog Comet for a single episode, Air Jesse, which fed a lasting myth that the role was his. The regular Comet was another golden retriever, who also starred in the film Fluke.
Q 04Why was Salem, the talking cat on Sabrina the Teenage Witch, sentenced to live as a cat?
Plotting world domination
Plotting world domination: the Witches' Council gave the warlock 100 years as a cat for it. The sitcom's wisecracking puppet, voiced by Nick Bakay, was such a hit that the comics rewrote their silent orange cat to match.
Q 05Co-star Alan Young admitted inventing which famous story about how Mister Ed 'talked'?
Peanut butter under his lip
Peanut butter under his lip: Young made it up because the producers wanted the trick kept from children. The trainer really used a nylon thread, and Ed soon learned to move his lips at a tap on the hoof.
Q 06Mister Ed will only talk to which character?
Wilbur Post
Wilbur Post: only his owner ever hears Ed speak. George Burns, whose company made the show, wanted Alan Young for the part because he 'looks like the kind of guy a horse would talk to'.
Q 07The chattering 'voice' of TV's Flipper was really a dubbed recording of which Australian bird?
Kookaburra
Kookaburra: the show dubbed the bird's laughing call over its dolphin. Flipper's body was no more authentic, since the male hero was played by five female dolphins.
Q 08The first dog to play Lassie on screen, and the founder of the Lassie line, was named what?
Pal
Pal was a male, though Lassie is female, and he set the pattern: the collies who have played her on screen since have all been males too.
Q 09Jon Provost, Lassie's Timmy, titled his memoir after which place his character never actually fell into?
A well
A well: Provost read the synopses of all 249 of his episodes and found Timmy never fell down one, so he named his memoir Timmy's in the Well as a joke on the line everyone quotes.
Q 10In The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, the dog and the boy Rusty live at which cavalry post?
Fort Apache
Fort Apache: the cavalry there take in Rusty and his dog after a raid on their wagon train. The part was billed to Rin Tin Tin IV, but unrelated German shepherds did much of the screen work.
Q 11The original Rin Tin Tin was rescued as a puppy from a World War I battlefield in which country?
France
France: American soldier Lee Duncan found the newborn puppy in a bombed German kennel there in 1918 and took him home to Los Angeles. His silent films earned so much that he is credited with helping to save Warner Bros. from bankruptcy.
Q 12On the 1990s PBS series Wishbone, the title dog pictured himself as the hero of what?
Classic books
Classic books: each episode dropped him, in costume, into a story such as The Odyssey or a Sherlock Holmes case. Soccer, the dog who played him, beat more than a hundred rivals to the part after doing a backflip at his audition.
Q 13Brian Griffin of Family Guy is what breed of dog?
Q 21On The Office, who killed Angela's sick cat Sprinkles and left her in the freezer?
Dwight Schrute
Dwight Schrute: left to nurse the ailing cat, he put her down instead and thought it a kindness, then claimed he had found her dead. Angela worked out the truth, and it cost him their romance.
Q 22After Buck died on Married... with Children, he was reincarnated as which dog?
Lucky, a cocker spaniel
Buck came back as Lucky, a cocker spaniel, in season 10 (1995); the reincarnation plot let the ageing dog actor Michael retire.
Q 23After Tiger the dog vanished from The Brady Bunch, what stayed behind in the family's back yard for years?
His doghouse
White Labrador retriever
White Labrador retriever: the family's talking dog is a Lab. In 2013 the show had him run over and replaced by a new dog, then sent Stewie back in time to save him just two episodes later.
Q 14How did the Simpsons come to own Santa's Little Helper?
He was abandoned after losing a race
He was abandoned after losing a race: short of Christmas money, Homer bet on the 99-1 outsider because of his festive name. The greyhound came last, his owner threw him out, and Bart talked Homer into taking him home.
Q 15Alongside Santa's Little Helper, what is the name of the Simpsons' cat?
Snowball II
Snowball II: the first Snowball was run over before the series began. When Snowball II was killed in turn in 2004, Lisa went through two more cats before a fifth, which she renamed Snowball II to save buying a new dish.
Q 16Astro, the Jetsons' dog, talks with every word beginning with which letter?
R
R: Astro swaps the first sound of most words for it, so 'I love you, George' comes out as 'I ruv roo, Reorge'. Don Messick voiced him, and seven years later gave Scooby-Doo the same growling speech.
Q 17Dino, the Flintstones' pet dinosaur, was voiced for nearly 30 years by which legendary voice actor?
Mel Blanc
Mel Blanc: he was Barney Rubble too, and after a serious car crash in 1961 he kept both parts by recording flat on his back at home, the cast gathered round a microphone hung over his bed.
Q 18Scooby-Doo is what breed of dog?
Great Dane
Great Dane: designer Iwao Takamoto asked a breeder what makes a prize-winning one, then drew the opposite on purpose, bowing the legs a show dog needs straight.
Q 19Ross Geller's pet in the first season of Friends was a capuchin monkey named what?
Marcel
Marcel was played by two female capuchins, Katie and Monkey. Ross gives him up to the San Diego Zoo late in season one, and David Schwimmer later admitted he had hated working with them.
Q 20On Lost, whom does Walt give his dog Vincent to before leaving the island on the raft?
Shannon
Walt leaves Vincent with Shannon before boarding the raft in the season one finale 'Exodus'; the Labrador survives the whole series and lies beside Jack in the final shot.
His doghouse stayed to the end, hiding a damaged patch of the fake lawn. Tiger faded out after the first dog to play him was run over and an untrained stand-in had to be pinned to the set floor by his collar.
Q 24Cheddar, the beloved dog of Captain Holt and his husband Kevin on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, is what breed?
Pembroke Welsh corgi
Pembroke Welsh corgi: Cheddar served as ring bearer at Jake and Amy's wedding, then passed out after eating the cake. Stewart, the dog who played him longest, died in 2019 aged 13.
Q 25Stella, Jay Pritchett's French bulldog on Modern Family, first belonged to an inventor played by which Broadway star?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda, then known for In the Heights, played Guillermo in 2011, pitching Jay a dog-training kit. Jay's blunt verdict sent him back to school, and Gloria came home with the dog he could no longer keep.
Q 26On Star Trek: The Next Generation, which crew member keeps a cat named Spot?
Data
Data: the android built without feelings dotes on Spot and recites an ode to the cat. The cat itself was less consistent, starting as a long-haired male Somali and ending up a female shorthair with kittens.
Q 27Bear, the dog on Person of Interest, is what breed?
Belgian Malinois
Belgian Malinois: Reese sees that a white supremacist gang's attack dog is military-trained and obeys only Dutch, a language he happens to speak. He walks off with the dog and names him Bear.
Q 28On Gilmore Girls, Lorelai names her dog after which singer?
Paul Anka
Paul Anka: Lorelai adopts the dog in season six while she and Rory are not speaking. The joke ran long enough that the singer played himself later that season, in an episode titled The Real Paul Anka.
Q 29What does Lieutenant Columbo call the basset hound that occasionally accompanies him?
Dog
Dog: Peter Falk resisted the basset hound as one gimmick too many until he met the sleepy old animal and fell for him. Columbo spends the hound's 1972 debut trying out names, and none of them sticks.
Q 30Punky Brewster's dog was named after whom?
NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff
The dog Brandon was named for NBC executive Brandon Tartikoff, who had also named the show after Peyton 'Punky' Brewster, a girl he had a crush on as a boy.